VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. II 



" This very curious collection exhibits, even more than the 

 spn-ited engravings in De Bry, the ability of the artist to whom 

 Sir Walter Raleigh intrusted the representation to the eye of 

 his new colony. They are very well drawn; colored with skill; 

 and, even in the present state of art, would be considered any- 

 where valuable and creditable representations of the plants, birds, 

 beasts, and men of a new country. The collection includes other 

 studies of the artist; a prince of Genoa in his court-dress, and 

 many Italian plants, being found within the same covers as the 

 chiefs, squaws and pappooses, and woodpeckers, herrings and 

 hepaticas of Roanoke. The distinguished naturalist. Dr. Francis 

 Boott, was so kind as to examine the collection at my request, 

 and confirms my own impression, that the plants and birds must 

 have been studied on the spot by the artist, as no specimens of 

 them then existed elsewhere in the world. 



" The volume in which these drawings are found is a scrap 

 book, made apparently by one hand. Among the paintings is 

 a print of Cromwell, and an India-ink painting; not, I think, 

 by White's hand. 



" An indorsement in another hand than Sloane's, dated 1673, 

 says: 'There is in this book a hundred and 12 leaves, with 

 flowers and picters and Fish, and of Fowls, besides wast paper.' 



" The representations of animals and plants give peculiar value 

 to the series; for the intimation has been thrown out that the 

 artist of De Bry's plates was never in America. These repre- 

 sentations of American birds, fishes, insects and plants could 

 not have been made in Europe. 



"The various pictures in the volume are: ten of Virginia In- 

 dians, of which one is the front figure of Plate IIII. in De Bry; 

 one is the front figure of III. in De Bry, where it is reversed by 

 engraving; one is VIII. of De Bry, the woman a little differing 

 from the print; one is XIX. of De Bry, four times the size of the 

 print, and without the trees." 



In Kohl's " A descriptive catalogue of those maps, charts, and 

 surveys, relating to America, which are mentioned in volume 

 three of Hakluyt's great work," pages 41-47, is a long argument 

 on the identity of the painter and governor. 



That he is not quite correct in his reference to Hakluyt and 

 De Bry is evident by a comparison from these writers with my 



